In his famous work, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville a French citizen touring America’s prison system in the Jacksonian era, mistakenly viewed us as a democracy and warned us extensively of the dangers we faced from that form of … Read More »

We are not a theocracy. Even Washington himself made that clear in The Treaty of Tripoli, something I struggled for years to understand when I discovered it. Yes, our basic laws regarding murder, theft, rape, incest, property crimes, and other … Read More »